Editing Paperback Writer (section)

==Personnel==

There is some dispute over who played what on "Paperback Writer". In the July 1990 and the November 2005 issues of ''[[Guitar Player]]'' magazine, McCartney stated that he played the song's opening riff on his [[Epiphone Casino]] guitar,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.epiphone.com/news.asp?NewsID=378 |title=McCartney and His Casino on Cover of Guitar Player |publisher=Epiphone.com |date=25 October 2005 |access-date=21 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722052548/http://www.epiphone.com/news.asp?NewsID=378 |archive-date=22 July 2011}}</ref> and photos from the recording session seem to be consistent with this.{{sfn|Babiuk|2002|pp=179, 182, 183}} In the 2005 edition of his book ''[[Revolution in the Head]]'', [[Ian MacDonald]] gives Harrison as the sole lead guitarist,{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=195}} and [[Kenneth Womack]] similarly lists McCartney only on bass and lead vocal.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=710}} Robert Rodriguez and [[Walter Everett (musicologist)|Walter Everett]] each credit McCartney as the player of the song's main guitar riff, and state that Harrison added lead guitar "fills" over his initial rhythm part.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|pp=115–16}}{{sfn|Everett|1999|pp=42–43}}

The following line-up is per Rodriguez:{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|pp=115–16}}

*[[Paul McCartney]]{{snd}} lead vocal, lead guitar (riff), bass
*[[John Lennon]]{{snd}} backing vocal, tambourine
*[[George Harrison]]{{snd}} backing vocal, rhythm guitar, lead guitar (fills)
*[[Ringo Starr]]{{snd}} drums